Lord and his ring

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Attention media reporters: Rupert Murdoch, probably the most important man on your beat, has lost his wedding ring. Last seen in the Sun Valley Lodge lobby.

Murdoch stumbled out of the Lodge bar on Thursday around midnight, where a ridiculously high-powered assemblage of media and tech moguls got sloshed. Instead of making a bee-line for the exit as most of the guests were doing, Murdoch, married to third wife Wendi Deng, was spotted hunting around the lobby. He told us he had lost his wedding ring.

So began a frantic 15-minute scramble among reporters hungry to please the mogul (me included), hoping to recover the ring and land an exclusive interview. No such luck. Still missing.

I’m a big fan of Mr. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. It seems to me, Mr. & Mrs. Reader, that this article’s comparing The One Ring to Mr. Murdoch’s wedding ring is inappropriate. Firstly, a wedding ring is not evil.

Is Mr. Li being stereotypical about marriage (which I find to be the greatest relationship that there can be between a woman and a man)? Perhaps.

Secondly, linking Tolkien’s masterwork and Middle Earth to Mr. Murdoch’s business empire seems just a bit out of balance.

I don’t think this article is humorous.

I do, however, sympathize with any husband who loves his wife and loses his wedding band…the perpetual symbol of their union and life together.

OK Jack,
Actually, it’s far less sinister than you think. I used the picture of the Ring merely to illustrate an important ring. I couldn’t find anything else in our pictures archive that would have conveyed the importance of the item. The picture of the One Ring has no other significance beyond that.
Apologies if i’ve offended.
Ken

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I have held several positions at Reuters News, including Editor at Large, Editor of Reuters.com, and editor of technology, media and telecoms news. I joined Reuters in 2003 and was previously a U.S. media correspondent based in New York covering everything from the big media conglomerates to start-ups.
I co-founded and co-edit MediaFile, which covers the intersection of media and technology.
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